Event number 7 of the Formula BMW Talent Cup. It has been a hard
and very hot weekend at the Monteblanco circuit in southern
Spain. 40 degrees Celsius in the shadow without any clouds in sight
hasn‘t been an exception but the

daily routine. The asphalt even hit 68 degrees!

Still redspotgames sponsored driver Lassi Halminen from Finland
kept cool and delivered some pretty decent results in both the
Qualifying and „Heat“ sessions (a.k.a. the 4 short
races).

After placing 2nd and 5th in the Qualifying session on Saturday,
he started from these grid positions in heat 1 and 3. For heat
2 and 4, the first 6 drivers from the previous heats started in the
reversed order to mix the grid up. Even due to these
reguations he managed to compete with the best drivers, placed 3rd,
4th twice and 6th in the last heat. This marks a good result
compared to his starting positions and the hard battle for places
with a few car contacts

by others.

„Qualifying 1 was very good for me and I didn‘t need
to drive more than one fast lap and I was second“, Lassi
Halminen reported. „Qualifying 2 wasn‘t that good
and I missed the best laps because of traffic and I was 5th. Heat
1 was quite good but I got overtaken on lap 2 in turn 6 so I
finished 3rd. Heat 2 I finalized as 5th [4th after a penalty
for another driver] and I had couple of very good and tight
fights. Heat three I had even more hard fights and
eventually I was able to rise from 5th to 4th and 3rd place
wasn‘t far, just one more lap...“, he said with a big
grin. „Heat 4 in the beginning of the heat I got stuck
and dropped from 3rd to 6th. My tires were not in perfect shape any
longer so the overtaking was very difficult, but all in all
the whole weekend was quite good. One podium, and lot of more
racing

experience.“

In his video message from Monteblanco, Lassi Halminen also
announced a new „Rush Rush Rally Racing for Wii-Ware“
poster which will be gave away for free to every order in the
redspotgames online shop (
www.redspotgames.

com/shop) from now on. Besides, the 15-year-old was also very
happy to present his first merchandise article with
the official „Rush Rush Rally Racing“ cap he is
wearing at each event. The quality cap by Flexfit is availbale at
the redspotgames

online shop for 50,00 EUR (US$ 72.00 / GBP 44,00). „To be
honest it looks much better than the common caps around, since
it‘s more stylish and uses a modern design with flexible
spandex. It‘s very fashionable and I also wear in my
spare time“ he comments. By the way: Every 25th order at the
redspotgames online shop will even get it for free!

About redspotgames

redspotgames is an independent publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment software. Established in 2005, the
publisher and distributor is a breath of fresh air among its
competitors. The company‘s portfolio began with the
international publishing, distribution and promotion of three of
the most high-class titles within the Dreamcast™ Indie
Games library: Last Hope, Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles and Rush
Rush Rally Racing. redspotgames gained international
publicity by continuing to support the SEGA®
Dreamcast™ videogame console at the end of it‘s
lifecycle. Meanwhile, redspotgames expanded its scope by
publishing

new challenging interactive entertainment software on the
leading hardware platforms - Nintendo WiiWare™, Xbox®
LIVE Indie Games and PlayStation®

Network. redspotgames is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and
has worked with development studios from around the world, from the
Netherlands to Costa

Rica.

The next station of the Formula BMW Talent Cup will be a
training from 19th to 21st August 2011 in prestigious
Silverstone, England. Here the participants will drive in a
racing simulator (it can‘t get any harder than „Rush
Rush Rally Racing“,

can it?), guided by former WTCC and future DTM driver Andy
Priaulx.

Furthermore, the race events in Portimão, Portugal (26th
to 28th August) and the grand finale in Oschersleben,
Germany (15th to 18th August) in the supporting program of the
DTM („Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters“) will be the next
steps.

redspotgames is an independent publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment software. Established in 2005, the
publisher and distributor is a breath of fresh air among its
competitors. The company‘s portfolio began with the
international publishing, distribution and promotion of three of
the most high-class titles within the Dreamcast™ Indie
Games library: Last Hope, Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles and Rush
Rush Rally Racing. redspotgames gained international
publicity by continuing to support the SEGA®
Dreamcast™ videogame console at the end of it‘s
lifecycle. Meanwhile, redspotgames expanded its scope by
publishing

new challenging interactive entertainment software on the
leading hardware platforms - Nintendo WiiWare™, Xbox®
LIVE Indie Games and PlayStation®

Network. redspotgames is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and
has worked with development studios from around the world, from the
Netherlands to Costa

Rica.

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